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Usually this shows your degree of confidence in dealing with the sort of impacts, anxieties or emotions which cause some people to ‘go under’, either in relationships or something like running a family or business. It indicates how you meet the many influences, urges and thoughts that buffet you and in which you live.

Example: ‘I looked at a large pool where a river surfaced. A woman swam in it and was going to enter tunnels leading away from it. As I watched I saw some huge crocodiles swim toward her. With great speed and confidence she swam away, obviously being able to match the threat.’ Laurie V.

Laurie explored the dream and found the swimming expressed his growing confidence in meeting feelings which in past years had led to depression.

Swimming can also be about expressive motivation, trusting yourself in life, and being confident sexually. There is an element of personal survival in swimming, and the dream might well emphasise this sometimes.

A parent dreaming about its child swimming might very well be considering whether they will ‘sink or swim’ in their dealings with life, and many women dream of swimming or being in the water during menstruation. See: Diving; Pool; Sea; Swimming pool; Water.

Idioms: In the swim; swim against the tide; sink or swim.

Useful questions:

Where am I swimming and what is the general feeling involved…am I swimming easily or with difficulty?

Is this about self confidence and trust that I can handle what I meet in life?

Do I feel fear and apprehension about my emotions, not trusting my ability to keep afloat?

Was this a healing dream, as in immersing myself in water as a cleansing influence?

Hanging about not getting in: Hesitation about a change, getting involved or something new in life.

Learning to swim: Learning to survive in a new environment, such as happens when we emerge from childhood into adult sexual drives, or the school or work environment.

Swimming against the current or tide: Meeting opposition, either from within or others. Perhaps you are moving against general opinions, or have feeling difficulties creating indecision or feelings of pressure.

Swimming underwater: Taking awareness into what was unconscious, so looking within and seeing what goes on under the surface in relationships, the body, etc. If easy it suggests ease meeting the varied aspects of your being.

Swimming with other people: Sharing common feelings, goals, etc., or your connections with others.

Diving in: Taking the plunge in a new activity, relationship or way of life.

Comments

-ankita2014-08-22 4:50:08

hi
my mother had a dream where she saw me going closer n very closer to our spiritual guru (shez a gr8 spiritual lady n we call her dadi)…n when i went closer dadi covered me like a protective sheild…my mom tells tht both of us moving like as if we were swimming……n my family was also close by……thn my mom asked dadi wht were u doing…to this dadi replied tht me n dadi herself were swimming/baithing in the well…
can you plz tell me wht could e the possible meaning of this

I have had two simiar dreams in a row, where I am swimming in a cave with my family. And there is a grizzly bear that swims along with us helping us. The dream is strong and powerful, and calming. I feel good the next day but I feel like I need to find out why im feeling this way.

But the cave, swimming with family and bear are a whole wonderful story in themselves. But as I explained in Clicking On the dream doesn’t really come alive unless you use and practise http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
The cave is entering into your self, you inner dream self more fully. To explain this you need to realise that in life and sleep we have two powerful actions working in us. The first is our waking experience based on having a body, its limitations, vulnerabilities and a particular gender. Our second is the power that gave us life and continues to express as dreams, in our breathing and heartbeat – our life. This I have given the description as the Life Will.
While we sleep our conscious self is largely or totally unconscious, and while we sleep our voluntary muscles are paralysed – therefore another will or motivating force moves our body. So we have a Conscious Will, and what I will call a Life Will. The first one we have experience of as we can move our arm or speak in everyday activities; but the second will takes over when we sleep.
This Life will can move us to speak, to move our body, and in fact do things that we cannot do with our Conscious Will. As Freud pointed out this inner will has full access to our memories. It is a huge resource.
And you are swimming in it – swimming denotes immersion and sharing consciousness with others. The bear is the helpful instincts that you have obviously claimed. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/
You feel good because you are nearer your core self and feeling more whole. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/core/
I have given several links because you said you need to find out.
Tony

I SEE MY SELF IN WATER AT HOLLY PLACE BUT I DON’T KNOW TO SWIM I SEE MY FACE IS SHINE AT TIME LIKE AS HOLLY LIGHT SO I DON’T KNOW THE MEANING OF THIS DREAM AND I AM VERY WORRIED ABOUT THIS TYPE DREAM SO PLEASE TELL ME THE TRUE